• Z88 to FTDI lead via MAX3232

    I have already blogged on here about how awesome the Z88 is, and how ahead of it's day it was.  Well, being awesome in your own right doesn't cut it these days - so you've got to be able to communicate and talk to things to be considered worthwhile. The biggest weapon the Z88 has up its sleeve is the humble serial port.  Combined with the built in terminal software (as well as the ability to 'print' serial data) and you've got a beast that's almost ready to talk to anything. Almost... 4-DSCN0518But first there's the slight problem of the non-standard pinout of the serial port, and then there's the issue that few things these days use +\-6v to communicate